As her friend, British actor Russell Brand, observed in a tribute on his website: "The priority of any addict is to anesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of the day with some purchased relief."

Unlike most talented economists who love to anesthetize the reader with complicated formulas based on obscure logic and theories, Professors Navarro and Autry specifically illuminate how the Chinese bureaucracy systematically targets industries supporting middle class wages in America for conquest and transfer to China.

The same rhetoric … I wonder when people stop believing and start acting … We don't need speeches on hope and pledges - they serve to anesthetize the population, that their problems shall be solved - they should hope for the solutions.